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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I would be willing that when the publisher got the draft for the first volume, he decided he wanted more set in the same world. That allows them time to get plans a lot more organized and perhaps rework the ending of the first book enough to give people a reason to buy the second...
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Bill
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That jives with what I've found. Collins finished writing The Hunger Games and pitched it to publishers which resulted in her signing a six-figure, three-book deal with Scholastic in 2006. The first book in the trilogy was then published in 2008. It seems likely to me that those two years between signing the deal and releasing the first book were used to rework the ending of the original novel and at least get some work done on the second novel and probably some overall direction for the third.
By the way... I mean none of my comments as condemnation in
any way. I just remember reading the interview and thinking "Wow!" Why can't more authors admit that they had no plans to write a series until the publisher convinced them to do so with lots and lots of money?